First,
you need to have
something to say
Before,
figuring out
—how to say it
(Dreamsleep: April, 2021)
Categories:
primo, words,
Form: Free verse
They craved something sweet
Something specail
A one of a kind lady deserves
Specail things for a specail lady
Madagascar vanilla for
A treat
Weather with cream or
Or with chocalate
Strawberries
Or flavor in your
Favorite sauce
Or make that
Kuril island toast
With pound cake
Toasted hazelnuts
Whiskey and coconuts
Kamchatka cream
and of course chocalate
Everyone will love you
Everyone will
Want more
Categories:
primo, appreciation, culture, food, french,
Form: Epic
Spring comes
Quietly--
Not with the bleating of lambs or
The tweeting of birds or the
Beating of butterfly wings
Spring comes
Silently--
Celtic through the Neolithic stones,
Unheralded by peering shadow-seekers
Rummaging around on the Second of
February, and unannounced by a
Banner on the front page of the
National Enquirer…
Unpresaged by pregnant April
Showers,
Spring comes--
Alive
Nota bene: This is one of the few pieces of juvenilia I have preserved. It was written when I was at college (the University of Florida), in 1979, when I was in the English Department High Honors Seminar. We had an assignment to write a poem about Spring, but to try not to fall into the usual cliches. I thought it might be fun to mention some of those cliches ironically. We had one-on-one tutorials with a number of well-known novelists and poets; one of mine was with the poet Richard Eberhart. He told me he liked this poem and that it was a good one, so I have kept it these four decades.
Categories:
primo, april, mystery, nature, silence,
Form: Free verse
For Primo Levi
it darkened more
as light shone through
and the haunting past stabbed
you felt
wept
screamed
as
silently the blind were led
'thieves' you called them
emerging from nowhere
yet everywhere
'thieves' you called them
no one
yet everyone
you felt
wept
screamed
till
finally
you left
Categories:
primo, forgiveness, freedom, grief, hate,
Form: I do not know?